List of Tables ............................................. ix
List of Figures ............................................. x
List of Illustrations ..................................... xii
Preface ................................................... xiv
Acknowledgements .......................................... xvi
Notes on Contributors .................................... xvii
INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND .................................... 1
Why 'Kinship'? New Questions on an Old Topic ................ 3
Wendy J.
A Brief Overview of Human Evolution ........................ 21
John A.J., Dunbar R., Dunbar G.
PART I Where and When: The Archaeological
Evidence for Early Social Life in Africa ............... 25
1 Kinship and Material Culture: Archaeological
Implications of the Human Global Diaspora .................. 27
Clive Gamble
2 Deep Roots of Kin: Developing the Evolutionary
Perspective from Prehistory ................................ 41
John A. J. Gowlett
PART II Women, Children, Men - and the Puzzles
of Comparative Social Structure ....................... 59
3 Early Human Kinship Was Matrilineal ........................ 61
Chris Knight
4 Alternating Birth Classes: A Note from Eastern Africa ...... 83
Wendy James
5 Tetradic Theory and the Origin of Human Kinship
Systems .................................................... 96
Nicholas J. Allen
6 What Can Ethnography Tell Us about Human Social
Evolution? ................................................ 113
Robert Layton
PART III Other Primates and the Biological
Approach ............................................ 129
7 Kinship in Biological Perspective ......................... 131
Robin Dunbar
8 The Importance of Kinship in Monkey Society ............... 151
Amanda H. Korstjens
9 Meaning and Relevance of Kinship in Great Apes ............ 160
Julia Lehmann
10 Grandmothering and Female Coalitions: A Basis for
Matrilineal Priority? ..................................... 168
Kit Opie and Camilla Power
PART IV Reconstructions: Evidence from Cultural
Practice and Language .......... 187
11 A Phylogenetic Approach to the History of
Cultural Practices ........................................ 189
Laura Fortunate
12 Reconstructing Ancient Kinship in Africa .................. 200
Christopher Ehret
13 The Co-evolution of Language and Kinship .................. 232
Alan Barnard
EPILOGUE ..................................................... 245
Reaching across the Gaps .................................. 247
Hilary Callan
Appendices to Chapter 12 .................................. 259
Bibliography .............................................. 270
Index ..................................................... 302
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